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Executives

In Small organizations, the Chair also has the title of CEO, and implements the Acts of the organization.

In Medium organizations, the CEOi and the CEOe implement the Acts of the organization. The CEOe handles external affairs, and the CEOi handles everything else. The CEOi is not the boss of the CEOe; the CEOe has primacy within the domain of external affairs; see Division between internal and external functions.

In Large organizations, the CEOi, CEOe, and CEOo implement the Acts of the organization. The CEOe handles external affairs, the CEOp handles "program/operating activities", i.e. ongoing activities, aside from external relations (but possibly including routine interactions with external entities), which directly accomplish the organization's purpose. In a corporation this would be operations and customer support (but not product development). The CEOi handles everything else.

When an external legal authority requires the identification of a single CEO, this shall be the CEOi. All CEOs may style themselves as a "co-CEO" (or "CEO", when doing so does not lead another party to believe that they have more authority than they do).

Selection of the CEOs

The CEOs are recallable delegates of the representative houses of the legislature.

The CEOi is selected by a body composed of all of the members of the Elect Board, plus all of the members of the Delegate Board (this is called the Combined Board).

The CEOe is selected by a body composed of all of the members of the External Elect Committee (3 members), plus all of the members of the Delegate Board, in which each member of the External Elect Board gets 2 and 2/3 votes (this is called the External Combined Board).

The CEOo is selected by a body composed of all of the members of the Program Committee (5 members), plus all of the members of the Delegate Board, in which each member of the Program Committee gets 1.6 votes (this is called the Program Combined Board).

Any member of the relevant body may nominate any person to the position of CEOi or CEOe or CEOo, with the consent of the nominee. See the procedure for electing a recallable delegate. Nominations and ballots are public.

Although the CEOs are selected and dismissed by various subsets of the Combined Board, matters such as executive compensation are set by Act.

Powers of the CEOs

In Small organizations, the CEO (who, in Small organizations, is the same as the Chair) has the power to implement the Acts of the organization.

In Medium organizations,

In Large organizations,

See Division between internal and external functions.

Executive Officers

Any CEO may nominate up to 3 individuals (if one individual is serving in multiple CEO offices at once, they may nominate 3 individuals for each of their CEO offices) to serve under them as executive officers of the organization within some domain of authority (the domain of authority delegated to an executive officer called a "portfolio"). An executive officer means that, within their portfolio, they have the authority to act in the name of the organization and to bind the organization to agreements. To become an executive officer, the nominee must be confirmed by a vote of at least 2/5 of the Combined Board.

A CEO may not directly exercise the authority delegated to an executive officer. However, at any time, for any reason, the CEO may dismiss an executive officer serving under them, after which the authority delegated to them reverts to the CEO.

Executive team members retain their position until dismissed or until their resignation. In particular, they are not removed just because the CEO who nominated them is dismissed. A CEO who wishes to reshuffle the executive team may wait until a replacement is confirmed before dismissing an incumbent executive officer.

A CEO may propose a redistribution of authority between portfolios, which must be confirmed by a 2/5 vote of the Combined Board; alternately, the CEO may dismiss officers holding the old portfolios, nominate officers with the new portfolios, and wait for the nominations to be confirmed, in the meantime exercising authority directly.

All dismissals and resignations shall be reported to the Combined Board by email within 3 days.

The Combined Board

The Combined Boards have no other function besides:

Policy vetos

With the consent of a CEO, a simple majority of an executive team (which consists of a CEO and the executive officers solving under him or her) may veto any action of any one of its members within that member's portfolio. Vetos may be pre-emptive. Vetos cannot not overrule the legislature and do not free the executive team of the responsiblity to implement legislation; they only affect executive actions.